The Kepler mission, NASA Discovery’s tenth mission, first launched in March 2009 with a goal to survey the Milky Way and hunt for Earth-size and smaller planets near the galaxy or “habitable” regions of planets’ parent stars.

In 2014, the Kepler space telescope began a new extended mission called K2, which continues the hunt for planets outside our solar system along with its other cosmic tasks.

According to Popular Mechanics, it’s possible that NASA teamed up with Google to create an algorithm using machine learning (an approach to artificial intelligence) to find even more exoplanets that Kepler may have missed.

By the list of engineers and scientists expected to speak Thursday and their respective fields of expertise, the Independent reported the discovery likely has to do with “exoplanets, their stars, and potentially asteroids.”